Missouri’s age verification law, enacted on November 30, is the halfway mark for the sweep of age verification laws across the country.

As of this week, half of the states in the U.S. are under restrictive age verification laws that require adults to hand over their biometric and personal identification to access legal porn.

Missouri became the 25th state to enact its own age verification law on Sunday. As it’s done in multiple other states, Pornhub and its network of sister sites—some of the largest adult content platforms in the world—pulled service in Missouri, replacing their homepages with a video of performer Cherie DeVille speaking about the privacy risks and chilling effects of age verification.

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  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 小时前

    Basically some guy came up with the idea for it, some guy made a case study that it would kneecap the online adult industry even with Article 230 style guarantees, then christofascists saw an opportunity in it to de facto ban porn.